Duty Quotes - Page 11

• Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Duty And Honor, Providence

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• Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

  Bill Shuster

  Veterans Day, Responsibility, Our Veterans

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• Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

  Ellen Key

  Liberty, Fidelity, Observation

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational, Leader, Firsts

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• The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

  Mortimer Adler

  Mind, Trying, Philosopher

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• When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Responsibility, Relief

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.370, Transaction Publishers

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• England expects every man to do his duty

  Horatio Nelson

  Men, England, Rebuke

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• People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

  Bob Black

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

  Edmund Barton

  Education, Taxation, Bears

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• It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

  Edmund Barton

  Education, People, Demand

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• The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Men, Ethos

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.276, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Apollo, Mercury

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

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• Must's a schoolroom in the month of may

  e. e. cummings

  May, Months

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.97, Grove Press

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• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mother, Father, Wish

  Tristram Shandy bk. 1, ch. 1 (1759 - 1767)

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• Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Too Much, Dare

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• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  The Malakand Field Force ch. 10 (1898)

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, War

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• So long as there are men, there will be wars.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorial Day, War, Men

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• Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• All the great things are simple.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Simplicity, Duty And Honor

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Beautiful, Mind, Humans

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• Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

  Will Durant

  Happiness, Mind, Action

  Will Durant (1991). “The Story of Philosophy”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Failure, Government, Giving

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Wish, Patient

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10

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• Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Christian, News, Literature

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